Many Jews and Israelis balk at calling the slaughter a genocide. It is painful to apply the term to the same people who experienced the most thorough attempt at extermination in human history. And the ...

It’s been 60 years since that summer and she and I are still arguing about politics, now as life partners of more than four decades. (Don’t worry: it took me another 14 years to convince her I was a ...

“America the Beautiful” has been attacked in so many ways by this master of destruction that it is now out of sight. It is still the symbol of the once great country that America once was, and that ...

State Department suspends temporary humanitarian visas after right wing backlash, leaving thousands of Palestinian children without access to urgent treatment.

The law signed last month by President Donald Trump, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, slashes $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade. Analysts project that between 10 and 15 million ...

Trump then smashed and bullied his way through his first 100 days, ruling via dictator-like decrees — executive orders — and carrying out retribution at every turn. Democracy’s redlines were crossed ...

Future Forward, the leading Democratic super PAC and the top spender in 2024, spent more than $509.5 million to influence the election. More than 40 percent of its receipts, $230.8 million, came from ...

More than 100 protesters gathered late Wednesday night on 14th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C., to confront a newly established police checkpoint operated by local and federal officers. The ...

Washington officials have launched a legal battle against the Trump administration after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order attempting to seize control of the Metropolitan Police ...

The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

Donald J. Trump and his minions think they’re right to put America first. What they don’t understand is that, defined in their narrow way, “America First” is America Alone. In an interconnected world, ...

Despite protests from Zelenskyy and European leaders, Trump was right to meet with Putin, not because they are friends, but because the United States and Russia are enemies, and because the war they ...